Eyespy: March 2005

Eyepsy brings you the latest quirky medical stories from around the world

Studying the hands of your favourite celebrity will no longer be a fail-proof way of determining their real age. Dr Ricardo Lancheros, director of the Colombian Plastic Surgery Centre in Bogotá, has invented a cosmetic technique to rejuvenate wrinkly hands. First he uses liposuction to remove excess fat from people's stomachs or buttocks and then transfers it to backs of their hands. Eyespy will now be spending hours checking out celebrity necks instead. http://www.lun.com/

Want to know how your cigarette smoking, alcohol quaffing, kebab chomping student lifestyle will make you look in years to come? With new technology from France you'll be able to face the future with a “magic mirror” that films you at home. The results are displayed on a flat screen, liquid crystal display, television “mirror” linked to a powerful image-processing computer. The software pieces together all your activities to show an image of your future physique. There will be several options for the visual feedback, from …